Chapter 67: The Return
"Minions!"
In the distance, there was a strange roar of breaking gongs, accompanied by the sound of heavy footsteps, and the caracal, nestled next to the bonfire, pricked up its ears and shook from side to side, and then snuggled softly against the back of its head, the corners of its mouth were slightly curved, and its eyes narrowed into a line.
Aldrich Triss, who had not let his guard down, was distracted, and it was a clear sign that he knew that the owner of the giant's house had returned, and that he had come with such a shock.
The knight took a few steps backwards, came to the ledge, and jumped to his feet, like a large gecko roaming on a log wall, holding the window edge with both hands to pull its body up, the caracal did not move, he turned sideways and scanned the dense forest below with the corner of his eye.
The giant, who was at least three times his size, carried an unconscious sawhorned deer on his shoulders and walked in the glade, perhaps because of his frequent walking, and had carved out a wide enough path.
Aldrich's eyes were quickly noticed by him, and when he looked up and looked at each other, Tris saw a trickle of crystal clear water flowing in the valleys of the mountain streams, converging in the depressions to form lakes that nourish the spirits and feed the birds and animals.
His mind was almost sunk, but at this critical moment, the source of faith pulled the knight back and regained his senses, and he avoided the giant's gaze with some fear, and a chill ran down his spine, perhaps because of a cold sweat.
The forest keeper with the heart of the mountain was surprised to find that strange human intruders could easily get rid of his 'pitcher plant', such a rare encounter, he was a little curious, but also a little excited, and immediately accelerated the pace of his steps.
"Tom!" "Tom!" as he walked up the steps, the half-giant threw the sawhorn deer to the ground, pushed open the steel-cast door with both hands, and with a shrill "squeak", the caracal by the campfire buried its head deep between its forelimbs, and Tris fell directly from the windowsill because of the vibration of the wall.
Aldrich found that everything around him began to twist and fold, and all colors faded in an instant, and then he walked directly through the world that turned into a misty cloud to reach the island in the middle of the lake.
No, maybe I'll find the secret to exiting the secret world in the lake, the thorn of the falling center of gravity. ’
The half-giant saw the mortal who could break free from the pitcher plant disappear in mid-air, reached out and touched his head, and his long locks of hair covered with vines and green leaves shook off many acorns, and he muttered.
"It's just a hallucination? Not really! Vanished out of thin air, I remember only wizards from Tallinn would do that. Mmmm, scared away by me, it's a shame, I could have made a friend. ”
The forest keepers were a little distracted, and the joy of hunting the saw-horned and swollen deer mutated by evil power diluted a lot, and they didn't even bother to clean up the messy dinner table.
He sat on a stool made of wooden stakes, and the bear-man Ushuk carved a simple and primitive life totem on the ring, fighting with the jungle rebels who were bloodthirsty and violent and harming the race, and there were some wounds on his body, which gradually healed under the blessing of the totem, and the lost physical strength began to recover.
The caracal was very self-conscious as a pet, and it left the edge of the warm campfire to the side of the half-giant, prostrate on his chest, and the rhythm of its heartbeat was very regular, which gradually calmed the forester's fluctuating mood.
"I feel that the mortal who magically disappeared out of thin air will come back. ”
The half-giant's pet meows in response, and when he falls into a shallow sleep, the caracal leaves lightly and returns to the campfire to continue sleeping, soon purring, presumably having a good dream.
Consciousness returned to his body in the hammock in the hall on the ground floor of the Mage Tower, Aldrich turned and jumped down, standing firmly on the ground, and Taling Cretins immediately woke up in advance and went back online to take over everything in the Mage Tower.
The knight, who had been in deep thought for a long time, walked outside, and after some distance, looked back at the ruins of the ancient buildings that were showing signs of revival, shook his head slightly, then nodded again, and sighed helplessly.
Vibrating his wings and flying to Taling's side, "You can't keep what you have decided to go, and it's useless for me to bother with my words, is this to go, Master Tris." ”
"This is not a place to stay for long, and my life will go on. Another point, the Water Blue Mage Tower has become no longer safe, the Snake Mine Cave is the property of the Earl family, the impact of the large-scale collapse will be cleaned up sooner or later, the underground caves, rock palaces, secret passages, they will soon find clues and find here, should we think about what to do?
Christins reached out to cover her mouth and yawned, "It's as simple as just creating a larger collapse and covering up all the secrets." ”
"Even if you can borrow my source of spell casting with the help of the contract, even if you squeeze me dry, you won't be able to cast the terrain-changing geokinetic technique, this is the six-ring arcane!"
"Don't be that troublesome, as long as you mix the right amount of blast powder in the alchemy workshop, and make a lead that is long enough to bring to the Rock Palace, it will take enough time to preset. The scanning distance is too far and there is not enough data, but according to my calculations, the collapse of the huge rock will cause a series of chain effects. The crunchy cake-shaped rock formations will crack completely, and without a few years and the tools at hand, this mess will be enough for them. ”
"It is said that there are still thirty years of excavation redundancy, a still profitable business, and the Count will not easily throw away this wealth, after all, it is his family business. ”
"Let's try to do it for a while, and if there are still disturbing flies, I'll melt through the rock formations and summon the abyssal species underground. ”
Aldrich Triss was stunned by Taling's sharp decision, but he had to find the right reasons, such as covering up his underground whereabouts and the misfortunes of more than a hundred unaccounted for mine workers.
He told Taling about his worries, and in order to help Master Tris, who had just succeeded the mage tower, Chrytins was silent for a long time before she spoke up to give a brief account of the results of her deduction.
Aldrich thought about it carefully, found no flaws or omissions, and nodded in agreement. Take the floating disc to the alchemy workshop, the tools are just enough, the materials are barely enough, and the production of the blast powder and lead is completed under the guidance of Taling. Although he is only a beginner in alchemy, Aldrich's knightly training has given Aldrich unusually stable hands, extraordinary stamina, and a very calm mentality, not to be frustrated by one or two failures.
Christine extracted a recipe from the memory bank for a type called the Goblin Bomb, and Aldrich completed a total of sixty-five finished pieces according to the prescribed production process, filling a snakeskin bag.
Surrounded by a narrow and dim corridor, he left the Mage Tower in a hidden location in the Cold Mountain, and returned to the rock palace under the Snake Mine Cave. With everything set up and all the gems collected, Aldrich left behind a deprived fire elemental elf, which looked like a faint spark when a candle burned to the base of its end, which served as a source of fire to ignite the fuse.
Not long after arriving at the underground cave, the strong acid melted and eroded rubble rolled down from the mine, and the grass and wood mortar continued to pour in, quickly neutralizing the acid into ordinary water.
'Chance!' Come to the pillow when I'm sleepy, it seems like I'm lucky. Aldrich immediately returned to the surface through the opened tunnel, and a group of people surrounded the immortal Knight of Tris, at which time the lead of the rock palace was just ignited, and dozens of goblin bombs exploded at the same time, directly destroying the boulder, and the originally stable mine cavern collapsed with a third stronger intensity.
"Run!" Aldrich shouted, the shadow of life-threatening death rushing in at an unprecedented speed, and everyone present ran in obedience.
The blasting powder-filled goblin bombs were so powerful that the Snake Mine cavern arched a hill upwards and then quickly sank, and the ground was like a stormy sea, undulating and jolting everyone nearby.
At this moment, people with real strength can of course escape, as for those half buckets of water who are unstable, who usually giggle and laugh and mix around, and who are rough about knight cultivation, they all roll down to the ground and ripple.
Aldrich, who was in the safe zone, looked back at the men, and suddenly remembered the farmer of the manor in Tris, who dried the wheat after harvest, shaking the sieve with fine holes, blowing away the bran and shriveled wheat, leaving only the full, sweaty fruits of labor.
He turned around and resolutely rushed into the danger zone where small collapses occurred from time to time, and reached out to drag those in sight out of danger, and handed them over to those who were affected by his actions and rushed to help, such as Manniu Kent and others.
It was not that no one dissuaded Aldridge from giving up this dangerous rescue move, but Knight Tris did not want to pay attention to such cold-blooded and ruthless words and deeds, and he finally used all his strength, and for the wounded who were injured in their hands and feet and could not move normally, he carried them on his shoulders and carried one in each of his left and right hands, and walked through the complex terrain depression area without any burden.
Ruif West, the captain of the Night Patrol Knights, was fortunate enough to see this scene, and was also frightened by the strength of the Tris Knight, and couldn't help but murmur: "It's too powerful, the body can bear the weight of four adults, and it can come and go freely in the hilly areas with complex terrain, Aldrich This guy is fully capable of being a heavy knight with a dragon lance to launch a decisive charge, and even a Titan knight wearing super heavy armor." How the hell did he cultivate, so that he could get close to those great knights of the Children of War at such a young age. ”
After rescuing all the Night Watchmen and counting the number of people, Aldrich Tris breathed a sigh of relief, his chest and back were wet with sweat, and it was obviously not an easy task to tire him like this.
The act just now won him the hearts of all his companions and colleagues, and even those who had opinions about him, or even some degree of contempt, had to applaud the Knight of Triss who stood up to change the tide at a critical moment.
"The Snake Mine is over, and the successive collapses have completely changed the topography of the nearby area, which has become a ruin, and the cost and manpower used to clean up the rubble on the surface is not a small amount. Rufer West sighed with emotion.
Aldridge sat up beside him, "These trivial things will be considered by big people, and what I want now is to return to the station as soon as possible, take a good bath, and soak in the hot water to relax completely." ”
"As you wish!, Lord Knight Tris. "There is no solution to the matter of the mine for the time being, and the withdrawal of the Night Watchman is a certainty, and Captain West immediately patted his chest and assured.
His Excellency Langton Morris, the chief knight of the city guard, his face as black as the bottom of a pot, secretly degraded the potion prepared by the alchemist of the Earl family as worthless, and wrote down an account for him, and ordered him to retreat in a huff.
The snake mine could not resume daily mining for a short time, and he had to throw money into it continuously, which had become a mess, and it was related to the Earl's family's property, and he definitely didn't want to get involved, and he had to find a way to pick it out, at least to bleach and wash himself, and also to prevent some people from splashing dirty water.